Author: Sheldon Hearn Date: To: Matthias Bernhardt CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Encoding the name of EXIM_USER instead of its user-id in the exim-binary.
On (2003/11/05 23:35), Matthias Bernhardt wrote:
> According to the very accurate documentation, exim_user and
> exim_group directives are already being looked up by getpwnam()
> and getgrnam() if they are found not to be numeric (I assume
> that is, if atoi() fails). This is the right place to mention,
> that it may/will save runtime if numerical uid/gid are used
> where possible.
>
> uid/gid=quicker, user/group=more flexible
I think you'll find that "save runtime" and "quicker" are relative
terms, and that the performance gain you'll get for all your trouble is
likely to fall into the "micro-optimization" class. :-)
